UNIVERSITY DAY The University and Alumni Celebrate the 119th Birthday Greetings of loyalty and love from a host of farscattered sons; messages of confidence from return-ing representatives of the younger purposeful alumni ;the presence of a student body of eight hundredyoung men, open minded to the finer influences of thecentury-old spirit of the place, together with the returnof members of classes from '49 (Ex-President Battle)to 1912; and the victory over Wake Forest in the after-noon, contributed to the making of October 12, 1912,one of the most significant of all the celebrations ofUniversity Day. The day's exercises began at 10:45 o'clock whenthe procession of alumni, faculty, and students, underthe direction of Chief Marshal Raper, formed in line J. N. Daily, Montgomery, Texas; Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Asheville, N. C.; Prof. N. C. Curtis, Tulane University, Xew Orleans, La. ; President Charles \Y. Briles, East Central Normal School, Ada, Okla. ; Capt. James E. Beasley, Memphis, Tenn. ; Rev. J. L. Cun- ninggim, Nashville, Tenn.; Rev. George B. Tilley, Cuthbert, Ga.; Eugene E. Barnett, the University's Missionary to China, Shanghai, China; L. W. Parker, of the faculty of the University of Minnesota; the Senior Class of the State Normal College at Greens- boro, N. C.; the East Carolina Training School; George Gordon Battle, New York City; Hampden Hill and Thompson Webb, Thermal, Cal.; Rev. R. W. Hogue, Baltimore, Md. ; C. B. Ruffin and G. O. Rogers, Lenoir, N. C.; Dr. Edwin Minis, Nashville, Tenn.; R. A. Merritt, Greensboro, N. C. ; Miss Alice Jones, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C.; Col. W. H. S. Burgwyn, W'eldon. N. C.; M. B. Aston and A. L. Fitzgerald, Goldfield, Nev.; W. C. Rodman, Wash- ington, N. C.; alumni association of Wayne County, Rocky Mount, N. C. Xew York City, Johns Hopkins University, Spartanburg, S. C, Winston-Salem, N. C, Philadelphia, Pa., Cabarrus county, Greensboro, N. C, Mecklenburg county, Richmond county, Surry county, Cambridge, Mass., Cumberland county, Macon, Ga., Granville county, Birmingham, Ala., Davidson county, Rowan county, Durham, N. C, Lenoir county. W. II. Swift, '01, the first speaker of the day, spoke on the "Relation of an Alumnus to the State." He said, by way of introduction, that the older sons of the University, if they could stand where he stood at that moment and could look into the faces of the eight hun- dred boys before him, would have no fear that they as graduates and as alumni in later years, would meet all the obligations inherent in the relation. Speaking more particularly of this relation, he said: "Every man of us who has been here or who is here, by the very fact of his being here, is indebted to every human being in North Carolina for his education. This is a State institution. There is nothing else to support it. except probably the few dollars that are paid for tuition. With that exception, every dollar used in its support is taken from the taxes of the State. This is done that the entire State may be benet'r For this reason, the State has a right to expect from President Venabu; axd Ex-President: Battle Leading thi: Procession'in front of Alumni hall and marched to Memorial hall.Ex-President Battle and President Venable, followedby the alumni speakers, headed the long, impressiveline. Within Memorial hall the invocation was offered byRev. W. D. Moss and the University Hymn was sung.President Venable, in his introductory remarks, ex-pressed as a hope for the future University, a markedgrowth in power and service and an exhibition of allthat is fine, worthy and high. His annual report ofregistration showed that the total number of studentsin all departments was 817. Divided into classes thesefigures represent the enrollment: Freshman, 285;sophomore. 157; junior, 87; senior, 75; graduates, 23;law, 118; medical, 53; pharmacy, 30. President Venable then read the list of letters andtelegrams received up to that hour from scatteredsons and friends—the birthday greetings sent back outof loyalty and love to the University. The list in-clude: Dr. Eben Alexander, Knoxville, Tenn. ; Supt.